Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2003, 8:06 PM CDT for Audrain County, Boone County, Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2003, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 281 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
562 WUUS53 KLSX 150106 SVRLSX MOC007-019-027-150145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 805 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHWESTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRALIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A SECOND STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARRISBURG...AND IT WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MURRY AUXVASSE COLUMBIA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3934 9217 3901 9258 3869 9229 3906 9173 $$ TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Pike, Ralls | 36 min |
| May 14, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 56 min |
| May 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 44 min |
| May 14, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 57 min |
| May 14, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron | 44 min |
| May 14, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 23 min |
| May 14, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 23 min |
| May 14, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 33 min |
| May 14, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison | 5 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.